knowne and honourably entertayned I had now gotten foure or fiue Seruants Dutch and English The Burgomasters sent mee a Present of Fish Flesh and Wines taking notice of the fauours I had done to them and theirs diuers came with thankfull acknowledgement of their Redemption by my meanes and Purse from Moscouite and Tartarian Captiuity and presented me with a Boll couer guilt in it Ricks Dollers and Hungarian Duckets which Coyne I returned againe They brought mee their Towne Booke and prayed mee to write my Name and place of Birth and abode that they and their Posteritie might honour my Name in Record for euer At Hamburgh likewise they for like cause presented me their thankes and Present and the Burgomasters feasted me I landed at Harwich opened my Aquauitae Bottle which had beene girt close vnder my Caffocke by day and my best Pillow by night and tooke thence the Emperours Letters which I sweetned aswell as I could But yet the Queene smelt the Aquauitae-sauour I had accesse three or foure seuerall times and some discourse by meanes of my Lord Treasurer Sir Francis Walsingham and some honourable countenance of my Lord of Leister by Sir Edward Horsey my Kinsman his meanes I was well entertayned by the Muscouie Company to whom the Queene had giuen command to prepare those things for which the Emperour had giuen directions With which and her Maiesties Letters gracious fauour sworne her Seruant Esquire of the Body giuing me her Picture Hand to kisse I departed in company of twelue tall Ships Wee met with the King of Denmarke his Fleet of Shippes and Gallies neere the North Cape fought with them and put them to the worst and after arriued at S. Nicolas I posted ouer Vaga and came to Slobida Alexandrisca where I deliuered the Queenes Letters to the Emperour with her pleasure by word of mouth short of his expectation He commanded my silence commended my speed and businesse done for him gaue me allowanances and promised his goodnesse for recompence of my seruice He commanded also that those Commodities should be brought vp to the Musco and receiued into his Treasury viz. Copper Lead Powder Salt-peeter Brimstone c. to the value of 9000. pounds and ready mony payd for them He came to the Citie of Musco and cast his displeasure vpon some Grandes hee sent a Parasite of his with 200. Gunners to rob his Brother in Law Mekita Romanowich our next Neighbour which tooke from him all his Armour Horses Plate Mony Lands and Goods to the value of 100000. Marks sterling He sent the next day to the English House for as much course Cotton as would make himselfe and his children Gownes to couer them The Emperour sent likewise Simon Nagoy another of his Instruments to squeeze or spunge Andrew Shalkan a great bribing Officer who brought his faire young Wife Solumaneda out of her Chamber defiled her cut and gashed her naked backe with his Cemitar killed his trusty Seruant Iuan Lottish tooke all his Horses Goods and Lands and beat out of his shinnes 10000. Robles or Markes sterling in mony At that time did the Emperour also conceiue displeasure against the Dutchmen and Liuonians before mentioned to whom a Church and libertie of Religion had beene giuen by my meanes and appointed certaine Captaines with 2000. Gunners in the night to take the spoile of all they had who stripped them naked rauished and defloured the women and virgins carrying away diuers of the youngest and fairest to serue their lusts Some escaping came to the English house where they were cloathed and relieued not without danger of displeasure amongst whom was that daughter of the Gouernour of Osell in Liefland commended to my fauour whose freedome I also afterwards procured and conueyed her to her father His crueltie grew now ripe for vengeance and hee not long after falling out with his eldest Sonne for his commiseration to those distressed Christians and for greeuing at his Vnkles wrongs iealous also of the peoples affection to him gaue him a boxe on the eare as it was tearmed which he tooke so tenderly that hee fell into a burning Feuer and in three dayes departed this life Whereat the Emperour tore his haire and beard like a mad man lamenting too late for that irrecouerable losse not to himselfe so much as to the Empire whose hopes were buried with him being a wise milde and worthy Prince of three and twenty yeeres Hee was buried in Michala Archangell Church in the Musco with Iewels and Riches put in his Tombe valued at 50000. pounds watched after by twelue Citizens in course euery night deuoted to his Saint Iohn and Michael to keepe both body and Treasure till his Resurrection Now was the Emperour more earnest to send into England about his long conceited match his second Sonne being weake of wit and body without hope of ability for gouernment and the third not only young but disallowed in Sanctitie and according to the fundamentall Lawes illegitimate borne out of Wedlocke of the fift vnlawfull Wife not solemnised with the Rites of their Church but in the Church-yard by a depriued and excommunicated Prelate in which respect neyther she nor her Issue were capeable of the Crowne The Emperour peruseth the Queenes last Letters and addresseth one of his trustiest Seruants in Embassage Theodore Pissempskeie a wise Nobleman about the Lady Mary Hastings aforesaid and that her Maiesty would bee pleased to send some Noble Embassadour to treate with him therein This Embassadour tooke shipping at Saint Nicolas and arriuing in England was magnificently entertayned and admitted audience Her Maiesty caused that Lady to bee attended with diuers Ladies and young Noblemen that so the Embassadour might haue a sight of her which was accomplished in Yorke House Garden There was he attended also with diuers men of quality brought before her and casting downe his countenance fell prostrate before her and rising ranne backe with his face still towards her The Lady with the rest admiring at this strange salutation hee sayd by an Interpreter it sufficed him to behold the Angelicall presence of her which hee hoped should bee his Masters Spouse and Empresse seeming rauished with her Angelicall countenance state and beauty Shee was after that by her familiar friends in Court called Empresse of Mosconia Sir William Russell third Sonne to the Earle of Bedford a wise and comely Gentleman was appointed her Maiesties Ambassadour to the Moscoune but hee and his Friends considering of the businesse and not so forward thereto the Company of Merchants intreated for Sir Ierome Bowes mooued theretowith his presence and tall person He was well set forth most at their charge and with the Russian Embassadour arriued at S. Nicolas The Emperours Ambassadour posted ouer land and deliuered his Letters with the accounts of his Embassage which was ioyfully accepted Sir I. B. passed slowly vp the Dwina 1000. miles to Vologda The Emperour sends a Pensioner Michael Preterpopoue
translated into Greeke This Philo in the beginning of his worke sayth That his Author Sachoniatho as he was generally learned so especially he searched out those things which Taantus called of the Aegyptians Thoyth of the Greekes Mercurie the first Inuenter of letters had written hee also blamed those that by Allegories and Tropologies peruert and obscure the Historie of their gods affirming plainely That the ancient Phoenicians Aegyptians and others adored those men for gods that had beene the Authors of good things to men applying to them also the names of those Naturall gods the Sunne Moone c. so making some gods mortall some immortall According to this Taautus therefore the first beginnings of all things were a darke disordered Chaos and the spirit of the darke ayre Hence proceeded Moth which we may interprete Mire from whence issued the seedes and generation of all creatures in the Earth and Heauen the plants first and from them the reasonable Creatures called Thophasunin that is the beholders of Heauen formed in the shape of an Eggs From Moth also came the Sunne Moone and Starres The Sunne by his heate separating these new-formed Creatures their conflict in the ayre produced Thunder which noyse awaked and caused to leape out of their earth this slimie generation after of the Winde Colpia and Baau which signifieth Night were borne men named Age and First-borne Age taught men to liue of the fruites of trees of these came Kind and Generation who being troubled with heate lifted vp their hands to the Sunne which they tooke for a god calling him Beelsamen which signifieth the Lord of Heauen whom the Greekes cal Iupiter Kind begate Light Flame Fire S This last by rubbing of stickes together found out fire From these descended in succeeding generations those Giants that left their names to the hils where they dwelt Cassius and Libanus that contended against their brother Vson who first aduentured the sea in the bodies of trees burned in which manner the Indians euen yet make their canoas or boats and he erected two Statues to the Wind and the Fire whom hee adored with the bloud of beasts These first men after their death had Statues consecrated to them by posteritie and yeerly solemnities To these succeeded others Hunter and Fisher which had two Sonnes one of which was named Chusor a great Magician From these descended Amynus and Magus Authors of Sheepe-cotes and flockes or heards of Cattell These were the Titans Inuenters of Arts hunting fishing building yron-works tents and such like To Misor one of these was borne Taautus first Author of Letters At that time was borne Elius and Beruth his wife which dwelt in Biblos the Parents of Caelus and Terra his wife and sister who deified with rites and ceremonies their father Elius being torne of wilde beasts To these were borne Saturne Baetilus Dagon and Atlas But Calus taking other wiues there arose a great quarrell betwixt him and his former ayded herein by her sonnes of whom Saturne the eldest created Mercurie his Scribe by whose Magicall Arts and by those weapons first by him and Minerua the daughter of Saturne deuised Caelus was ouerthrowne who after two and thirty yeeres warre betwixt them was taken by his sonne and depriued of his genitories Saturne had issue besides his daughters Minerua and Proserpina Amor Cupido Saturne Iupiter Belus and Apollo of his Sisters Astarte Rhaea Dione Then also were borne Typho Nereus Pontus the Father of Neptune Saturne suspecting his brother Atlas buried him in the ground and cast vp an high hill ouer him where not long after was a Temple erected to him Dagon was inuenter of Tillage and therefore called Iupiter of the Plough But Saturne becomming a great Conquerour bestowed Egypt on Taautus or Mercurie who first made a mysterie of their Theologie as the Sonne of one Thalon the Phoenician Priest first did among the Phoenicians applying allegoricall interpretations thereof to Nature and instituting Rites to posterity This allegoricall Theologie of Taantus was interpreted by Surmobolus and Thurro It followeth in the History That it was then a custome in great calamities for the Prince to appease the angry Daemon with his best beloued sonne and thus in the time of a perillous warre was Leüd the Sonne of Saturne by a Nymph named Anobreth cloathed in royall apparrell offered on an Altar erected for that purpose This was practised long after by the King of Moab who being besieged by three Kings of Israel Iuda and Idumaea sacrificed his eldest sonne which yet some interprete of the eldest sonne of the King of Idumaea Taautus ascribed Diuinitie to the Serpent as being of a most fierie and spirituall nature mouing it selfe swiftly and in many formes without helpe of feet and a creature which renueth her age The Phoenicians and Aegyptians followed him herein they calling it a happy Spirit of God these Eneth and framed thereto the head of a Hawke of which in his place wee haue spoken And thus farre haue wee beene indebted to Eusebius In the time of those warres betwixt Saturne and Caelus was borne Hercules to whom was a Temple of great Antiquity at Tyre To Hercules were also celebrated games at Tyrus euery fiue yeeres to which Iason sent three hundred drams for a sacrifice m Hiram in Solomons time pulled downe the old Temples of Hercules and Astarte and built new He first erected a statue to Hercules and in the temple of Iupiter consecrated a golden Pillar The Sydonians also worshipped Astarte in a stately and ancient Temple to her builded whom some interprete Luna some Venus and one of her Priests to Lucian Europa She was worshipped of the Punickes a Phoenician colony by that name of Iuno But Philo Bybliensis saith it was Venus which may bee all one for Herodotus saith Vrania which was also Iuno was Venus and Luna also after Lucian And so it appeareth by her hornie head wherewith Philo saith shee was painted the Arabians called her Alilat the Chaldaeans Militta The same is called also Beltis or Baaltis and Belisama in an old Inscription that is Iuno Olympia or Queene of Heauen Shee ware on her head in stead of a Crowne a Bulles-head whereby what else could be meant but the Moone Queene of the night as the Sunne Baalsamen is King of Heauen or Lord of the day But the manifold names giuen to the same Deities brought in confusion and a numberlesse Polytheisme nor can wee well distinguish betwixt Minerua Iuno Venus Luna and other names of their mystie mysteries Shee is called also Astroarche Iuno Lucina Ilithyia which hath her mid-wife-mysteries borrowed together with the name from the Iewish Lilith of which we shall after speake as the name Alilat also is The Syrian goddesse before related and the Persian Mithra which some deriue of Mader that is in the Persian also a mother is no other but this Astarte Vrania or as Tertullian cals her Coelestis or what other
people of their money by many deuices as by selling them Scroles to keepe them by the Deuill from hurt of Deuils after death borrowing of money here to repay with great interest in the future World giuing the Creditor a Bill or Scroll of their hands for security by telling of things stolne or lost which they doe by Inchantments calling a Deuill into a child who being so possessed answereth their questions by selling their blessings and curses like Balaam Some by vow the most liue vnmarryed as the Bonzian women Another Sect called janambuxos before their admission into that Order liue two thousand or more together on a high Mountayne for the space of threescore dayes macerating themselues with selfe-inflicted penance the Deuill in diuers shapes meane-while appearing to them And after this they are receiued into that damnable Fellowship distinguished by white flockes hanging downe their neckes curled haire and blacke hats and so wander from place to place giuing notice of their comming by a little Bell. Another Sect called Genguis dwell on some high Hill blacke of complexion and as is supposed horned marrie Wiues of their owne kindred passe ouer great Riuers by the Deuils helpe who on a certaine Hill at times appointed appeareth to them of whom by the name of Amida he is worshipped In another Hill he was wont to appeare to his deuout followers whom then hee would lead as they thought to Paradise indeed to destruction They say that a Sonne not able to perswade his Father from this passage to Paradise secretly followed him with his Bow and Arrowes and when the Deuill appeared shot and wounded a Foxe whom he followed by the bloud to a Lake wherein he found many dead mens bones They haue another Vniuersity in Iapon called Coia whose Bonzian Students are of the Sect of Combendaxis supposed the Inuenter of the Iaponian Letters He in his old age digged a foure-square Caue into which hee conueyed himselfe affirming that hee then dyed not but after some Millions of yeeres would returne in the dayes of one Mirozu which then should be a most worthy King in Iapon About his Sepulchre burne many Lampes sent thither from diuers Nations with opinion that such as enrich that Monument shall themselues here be enriched and in the other life by Combendaxis patronized In the Colledges here liue sixe thousand of those Shauelings from whom women are restrayned vpon paine of death At Fatonochaiti the Bonzij trayned vp witty and proper youths in all trickes of subtlety and guile acquainting them with Genealogies of Princes that so they might counterfeit to bee the sonnes of such or such great men and borrowing money on that credit might enrich their wicked Colledge till the sleight being found they were killed of the Inhabitants There be that worship the Sunne and Moone who haue an Image with three heads which they say is the vertue of the Sunne Moone and Elements These worship the Deuill in visible shape appearing to them with many and costly Sacrifices Some Bonzij play the Physicians which burne certaine papers in which are written the sentences of Cam and Fotoch which papers being burnt they put the ashes in drinke and giue the same to cure diseases and with lyes to turne away lyes and fraudulent dealing Some hold Xacas booke in such veneration that without it they hold it impossible to bee saued Other Bonzij haue beene in other ages in high reputation of holinesse but one especially not a hundred yeeres since the author of the sect called Icoxos the Ruler or Generall of which sect is openly wicked but so adored of the people that if he but looke on them they will salute him with teares of ioy praying him that all their sinnes may bee pardoned and therewith giue him no small quantitie of their gold His yeerly festiuall is so honoured with thronging of the people that in the entrie of the Cloyster many are trodden vnder foot which yet is of the blinde people accounted a happinesse many willingly yeelding themselues to be killed in that presse And in the night whiles his prayses are sung there is a great howling and lamentation Nequiron was author of the sect Foquexan There is an Image or Colossus of Copper in the way from Ozaca to Sorungo called Dabis made hollow sitting vpon his heeles of huge greatnesse and yeelding a great sound if any hallow in the hollow thereof as some of Captaine Saris his companie did At Meaco he obserued one Temple as great as the body of Paules westward from the Quire with a stone roofe borne vp on as high pillars Hee saw an Idoll greater then the former reaching vp to the top of the arch That of Dabis was in their way to the pilgrimage of Tenchadema where Master Adams told him that hee had beene There they euery moneth present the Deuill with a new Virgin instructed by the Bonzij to aske him certayne questions which he in humane shape appearing answereth hauing the carnall vse of her body if some Bonzi make not the Deuill Cuckold as in our Egyptian Relations yee shall find of Tyrannus Some of their Bonzij professe a militarie discipline as the Knights of Malta The profession called Neugori was instituted by Cacubau who is therefore deified in which some intend their prayers whiles others fight and others performe their taske of making fiue arrowes a day Their gouernment is an Anarchie euery one obeying and commanding the meanest person amongst them hauing a Negatiue in all their consultations And nothing is agreed on till all be agreed In the night they often kill one another without remorse and yet such is their Religion this Sect holdeth it a sinne to kill a flye or any liuing thing Amongst the Bonzij there are two principall men which if vnder their hand-writing they giue their testimoniall to other of their Orders it is as conferring a Degree yea a kinde of Canonization For thence-forward they sit in a chaire and are adored and appoint to other Students their taskes of meditation One of these puffed vp with vanitie and arrogance professed to know what he was before he was borne and what should become of him after death Valentine Caruaglio in relating the death of some principall Nobles which withstood Daifusama the present Emperor speaks of a certaine Bonzi which neuer stirres out of doores but vpon such occasions who accompanied with many of his Sect after other hallowing ceremonies did giue them a certaine booke to kisse and laid it on their heads wherein they reposed much holinesse and worshipped it as a god but one of them named Augustine reiected him crying out hee was a Christian and therewith tooke out a picture of Queene Catharine of Portugall sister to Charles the fifth in which were also represented the holy Virgin and our Lord and with great reuerence laid it three times on his head and so resounding the names of Iesus and Maria was beheaded This I mention to let
maruell if in India there were some great Christian Prince able to make a head against the Tartars in those times For euen in Cranganor are yet supposed to hee threescore and ten thousand Christians besides a great number in Negapatan and in Malipur and very many in Angamale and fifteene thousand on the North of Cochin where the Archbishop that dependeth on the Patriarke of Babylon or Mosul resided All which haue no communion with the Greeke Roman or Ethiopian Churches And for the Ethiopian names or crosses either their Merchants when their state was great or slaues which taken from them are euen in these times sold dearest of any other and mount to great preferments of warre vnder these Lords might leaue such impressions or some other which as they professed one Christ so might haue some wordes and ceremonies common with the Ethiopian although I must needes acknowledge that many of those crosses haue not crossed my way nor any other Ethiopian foot prints Pardon me gentle Reader if I seeme tedious in this dispute seeing it is necessarie both for the vnderstanding of the extent of the Power and Religion of this Precious or Priest Iohn and Scaliger hauing ascribed such large bounds to his Empire I could not but examine the same otherwise professing my selfe si non magis amica veritas euen willing if I must needs erre to erre with him who hath in many tongues and arts shewed himselfe perhaps the worthiest Generall and generallest Worthy against Error that euer wee haue had the Alpha of learned men in our Age as our learned Marton testifieth of him and a great light of learning acknowledged by Royall testimonie His authoritie I would not seeme to contemne and therefore haue entred this long search But Scaliger himselfe hath since altered his opinion in the last Edition of his Emendation in which these later Editions of this worke might haue excluded also this long dispute but that it may serue to illustrate both this and other parts of our Historie and therefore doe still suffer it to remayne HONDIVS his Map of the Abissine Empire ABISSINORUM REGNUÌ„ CHAP. 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Relations of the Aethiopian Empire collected out of ALVARES BERMVDESIVS and other Authors TO come now to the Aethiopian Greatnesse of this great Aethiopian his Title would be a sufficient Text for a more sufficient glosse then we can giue In a Letter to King Emanuel after diuers words concerning the Trinitie follow These Letters sendeth Atani Tinghill that is the Frankincense of the Virgin which was his name in Baptisme but at the beginning of his Raigne hee tooke to name Dauid the beloued of GOD Pillar of the Faith descended of the Tribe of Iuda Sonne of Dauid Sonne of Salomon Sonne of the Pillar of Sion Sonne of the seed of Iacob Sonne of the hand of Marie Sonne of Nahu according to the flesh Emperour of the Greater and Higher Aethiopia and of most large Kingdomes Territories and Iurisdictions the King of Xoa Caffate Fatigar Angote Baru Baaliganze Adea Vangue and Goiame where Nilus springeth Of Damaraa Vaguemedri Ambeaa Vagne Tigri-Mahon Of Sabaym the Countrey of the Queene of Saba of Barnagasso and Lord as farre as Nubia which confineth vpon Aegypt Heere are names enough to skarre a weake braine a great part whereof are now his as some say in Title onely For at this present if Barros and Botero bee beleeued his Neighbours haue much encroched vpon him as a little before we haue shewed a thing wholly denied by the later Relations of Frier Luys de Vrreta Yet seeing we are to trauell through all these Countreys we will leaue the question of dominion to him and his neighbours to try it with the sword Our pen shall peaceably point out the places and after that the conditions Barnagasso is the nighest to vs at least by the neere situation of the red Sea nighest to our knowledge It stretcheth from Suachen almost to the mouth of the Streyt and hath Abagni or Astapus on the South It hath no other Port on the red Sea but Ercocco Neither hath the Prete any other Port but this in all his Dominion being Land-locked on all sides Anno 1558. The Turks committed heere great spoile They haue since taken from the Prete all on the Sea side and specially that Port of Ercocco and the other of Suachen or Suaquem and forced the Gouernour or vnder-King of this Prouince to compound for a yeerely summe of a thousand ounces of Gold besides his Tribute to the Ethiopian To him are also subiect the Gouernmenrs of Dafila and Canfila And the Turke hath a Basla at Suaquem called by Ptolomey Sebasticum Tigri-Mahon lyeth betweene Nilus Marabo two Riuers Angote and the Sea Tigrai hath in it Cazumo which is supposed the Seat-Royall of that great Queen which visited Salomon Angote is between Tigre-Mahon Amara Heere in Amara is a steepe Hil dilating it selfe in a round forme many dayes iourny in compasse enuironing with the steepe sides and impassible tops thereof many fruitfull and pleasant Vallies wherein the kindred of the Prete are surely kept for the auoiding of all tumults and seditions Xoa hath store of corne and cattell Goiame hath plenty of Gold as Baguamedri hath siluer In Fatigar is a Lake on the top of a high mountaine twelue miles compasse abounding with great varietie of fish and thence runne many Riuers stored with the same fish Damne is ennobled with slauerie For the slaues that are hence caried captiues in Arabia Persia and Egypt proue good souldiers The greater part of this Kingdome are Gentiles and the residue Christians The Oxen as Bermudez relateth are almost as great as Elephants their hornes very great and serue for vessels to carie and keepe Wine and Water as Barrels or Tankerds There is found also a kinde of Vnicorne wilde and fierce fashioned like a horse of the bignesse of an Asse Neere hereunto he addeth a Prouince of Amazons whose Queene knoweth no man and is honoured as a goddesse they say they were first instituted by the Queene of Saba both like true as that which followeth of Griffons the Phoenix and fowles so bigge that they make a shaddow like a cloud Couche is subiect to Damur they are Gentiles The Prince called Axgugce that is Lord of riches he shewed vs saith Bermudez a Mountaine glistering in some places like the Sun saying all that was gold More gold is said there to be then in Peru or in these parts iron The head of the Monasteries of Amara Christned him Gradeus the Emperour being his God-father and named him Andrew Gueguere was sometimes called Meroe the Inhabitants are confederate with the Turkes and Moores against the Abissines Dancali and Dobas are neere the red Sea inhabited with Moores Many of these Countreys are diuersly placed by diuers through ignorance of the exact situations which Aluarez in his so many yeares trauell in those parts might well haue
from other fishes being halfe a span straight vp erected from his mouth the greatest foure foot long a scole of these followed them neere one thousand leagues knowne to bee the same by some hurts wherewith they had marked them The Bonitos are like Mackrils but greater some as bigge as a man could lift The Sharkes haue their mouthes vnder their bellies that they cannot bite their prey without a halfe turne and the helpe of his tayle These are the most rauenous and some hold ominous they haue found in their bellies Hats Caps Shooes Ropes ends and whatsoeuer hanged by the Ships sides they haue thirteene rowes of teeth They spawne not but whelpe like the Dogge or Wolfe and at night or towards stormes receiue their young into their mouthes for safetie I haue seene them sayth Sir Richard go in and out being aboue a foot and halfe long Little fishes alway accompany them and feed on the scraps they are lesse then a Pilchard streaked blacke and white as in coloured Liueries keeping on the head fins and backe of the other Another obseruation of this our Author is the Scuruie or Scorbute whereunto they are much subiect in Nauigations neere the Line the cause he ascribeth the weaknesse of the stomacke in immoderate heate salt meates specially fish Calmes and the Sea-water which could not but infect the World if it were not otherwise affected and moued with Windes Tides and Currents an instance whereof he sheweth in the Queenes Nauie in the yeere of our Lord 1590. at the Asores many moneths becalmed the Sea thereby being replenished with seuerall sorts of Gellies and formes of Serpents Adders and Snakes Greene Yellow Blacke White and some partie-coloured whereof many had life being a yard and halfe or two yards long And they could hardly draw a Bucket of water cleere of some corruption withall In twentie yeeres wherein he vsed the Sea hee could giue account of two thousand consumed with this disease In this Voyage they were forced for want of fresh Water to distill Sea-water which they found wholsome and nourishing I might follow our Authour in his Obseruations of these Seas which he sayth vnder the Line is best to crosse in Ianuary February and March and of the Ilands of Cape Verde elsewhere by vs obserued being in the height of these Ilands where now we are discouering which he sayth are the most vnwholsome in the World and had halfe his people on this Coast sicke of shaking burning frenzie-feuers a man can scarcely goe on the Earth though well shod when the Sun shineth and the Breeze which in the afternoone cooles them from the North-east pierceth them also with sudden cold so that the Inhabitants goe thicke clothed with Caps and Kerchers besides their Hats their Suites of thicke cloth and Gownes well lined or furred to preuent danger Sleeping in the open Ayre or in the Moone-shine is there very vnwholsome The Moone shining on his shoulder on the Coast of Guinee left him with such paine that for twentie houres space he was like to run mad But what Moone-shine hath made mee lunatike to run from these American Ilands to those and the Coast of Africa Patience Reader and I will bring thee backe in a fresher pursuit In Dominica where we were last on shore it is related by one which wrote the Earle of Cumberland his Voyage to Port Rico that they haue their seuerall Houses to other vses priuate but haue a common Hall or Dyet for to eate in together as Lycurgus instituted to preuent Riot amongst his Spartans The Maydes in this Iland are said to weare no Garters and the first night of their Marriage they tye them so hard that the flesh hangs ouer In Tortuga they tolled certaine Spaniards ashoare vnder pretence of Traffique and then ate them §. III. Of Boriquen Iamaica Cuba and the Lucayae BOriquen or Saint Iohns is three hundred miles long and seuenty broad trauersed with a rough Mountayne which yeelds many Riuers The Spaniards haue there some Townes The Earle of Cumberland in the yeere 1597. hauing by his Sea forces stayed the going of fiue Carikes to the Indies whereby the King of Spaine lost three Millions and the Merchants foure times as much sayled to Saint Iohn Port Rico in this Iland and tooke it with diuers Forts here was a Bishops See and Cathedrall Church with a Fryery foure hundred Souldiers in pay besides three hundred others It was accounted the Mayden Towne and inuincible and is the Spanish Key and their first Towne in the Indies He brought from thence neere fourescore cast Peeces and much other wealth This Iland was first conquered by Iohn Ponce and by him inhabited the Naturals were altogether like in Religion and manners to the Inhabitants of Hispaniola and so were the Plants and Fruits also Ouiedo hath written hereof largely in his sixteenth Booke There growes the Tree called Legno Santo more excellent then Guaiacan for the Neapolitan and many other diseases there is also white Gumme good for Ships in stead of Pitch and there are Bats which the Inhabitants did eate These Ilands are not so well peopled as in former times and many of them are retyring places of Rebels and Fugitiues which take this shelter against the Spanish cruelties Hispaniola is the next Iland of name but shall haue a place by it selfe as a Map and Summarie of all the other Iamaica is almost as large as Boriquen It is extremely subiect to the Vracani which are such terrible gusts of Winde that nothing can resist them They turne vp Trees ouer-turne Houses transport the Ships from Sea to Land and bring with them a most dreadfull and horrible confusion They raigne or tyrannize rather in August September and October The Inhabitants are of quicker wits then the other Ilands Cuba is more Northerly and extendeth it selfe three hundred leagues in length and twentie in bredth full of Mountaynes Woods Fennes Riuers Lakes both salt and fresh This Iland hath had many names giuen by the Spaniards Fernandina Ioanna Alpha and Omega The Woods are replenished with Swine and Kine the Riuers yeeld Golden Sands It hath sixe Spanish Colonies Saint Iago a Bishops See is the chiefe Towne in the Iland and Hauana is the chiefe Port of the Indies Ouiedo reckons two things most admirable therein one a Valley trending betweene two Hils three leagues which produceth abundance of stones enough to lade many Ships of a perfect round forme like Bullets The other a Fountaine whence Bitumen or a certaine Pitchie substance floweth and floteth euen to the Sea excellent for pitching of Ships In this Iland the common people were prohibited the eating of Serpents as being reserued for Royall Dainties and the Prerogatiues of the Kings Table Columbus sayling by this Iland lighted into a Nauigable Riuer the water whereof was so hot that none might endure his hand long therein He espied also a Canoa of fishermen which after a strange fashion
where I with others saw him and he espying me called vpon Christ They threw him into a Dungeon where hee miserably ended his life He had liued in pompe and beene Authour of much mischiefe had conuayed much treasure out of the Countrey by way of England to Wesell in Westphalia where hee was borne though brought vp in Cambridge an Enemy alway to our Nation Hee had deluded the Emperour with tales of Queene Elizabeths youth and hopes by his Calculations of obtayning her But the Emperour out of hope hereof heard that there was a young Lady of the bloud Royall the Lady Mary Hastings daughter to the Earle of Huntington whom he now affected The Bishop of Nouogrod was condemned of coyning and sending money to Swethen and Poland of keeping Witches buggering Boyes and Beasts confederating with Bomelius c. All his goods were confiscated and himselfe throwne into a Dungeon with Irons on his head and legges where he made painted Images Combes and Beads liued with bread and water Eleuen of his confederate Seruants were hanged in his Palace gate at Mosco and his women Witches shamefully dismembred and burnt The Emperour passed ouer those which had beene accused and now consulted about marrying his second Sonne Chariwich Theodor being of great simplicitie the eldest hauing no issue But hauing his Prelates and Nobles together could not but euaporate some of his conceits from the former confessions of their Treasons being Ascension day on which before Musco had beene burned He spent some houres in Rhetoricall enlarging the dismalnesse of that day with great eloquence darting still with his eye at many Confederates in the late Conspiracie protesting to leaue them a naked disloyall and distressed people and a reproch to all Nations of the World The Enemies are at hand God and his prodigious creatures in the Heauens fight against vs Scarcity and Famine witnesse it and yet no Iudgements moue remorse in you The Originall is too long to recite Little was done but all prostrating themselues to his Maiesty and mercy desired God to blesse his holy purpose for the marriage of his Sonne for whom he chose Irenia daughter of Theodor Iuanowich Godonoue and after the solemnization of the marriage with great Feast dismissed the Nobles and Prelates with better words and countenance which was taken for a reconciliation But the Nuptials could not be performed by vsuall cohabitation which much distempered the King it is not decent to write the courses taken therein The Emperous Letters Instructions were ready himselfe his chiefe Secretarie Sauelly Frowlow whiles I was present closed them vp in one of the false sides of a woodden Bottle filled with Aquanitae to hang vnder my Horse-mayne not worth one penny appointed me foure hundred Hungarian Duckets in Gold to be sowed in my boots and quilted in some of my worst garments He said he forbare to tell me of some secrets of his peasure fearing left I passing thorow his Enemies Country might bee inforced to discouer what hee would not haue knowne The Bottle you carry with you shall declare what you shall say to Queene Elizabeth my louing Sister of which you must haue care as of your life vntill you come in safe place to open it In meane while and alway bee thou my sweet Sunshine Eremiska trusty and faithfull and thy reward shall be my goodnesse and grace from me hereafter I fell prostrate layd my head on his foot with a heauy heart to bee thus exposed to vnauoydable danger Doeafie Vlanon a Gentleman of good ranke and daily Wayter on the King attended me my Sled and Horse and twenty Seruants were ready at the posterne gate I posted that night to Otuer ninety miles where victuals and fresh Horses were prepared and so to Nouogrod and Plesco 600. miles in three dayes where entring into Liuonia my Gentleman and Seruants tooke their leaues and desired some token to the Emperour of my safe comming thither They left me with a poore guide only Within three houres after the Centinell tooke me vpon the borders and brought me to New house into the Castle before the State-holder or Lieutenant who straitly examined and searched me suspecting me as one comming from their enemies Country I said I was glad to come into their hands out of the vaile of misery the Moscouites Country not without losse On the third day vpon some mediation they appointed mee a Guide and suffered mee to passe The Guard expected gratuitie but I excused as pinched by the Russe I passed three dayes by Land and frozen Meares to Ossell in Liefland an Iland large and spacious vnder the King of Denmarke Raggamuffin Souldiers tooke me and vsed me roughly and carried me to Sowen Burgh and so to Orent Burgh the chiefe Townes and Castles in those parts and there deliuered me to the State-holders Lieutenant I attended his pleasure kept hardly as a Spie the Snakes creeping in my Lodging on Bed and board and Milke pans the soyle was such they did no harme I was called before the chiefe Gouernour a graue Gentleman in good fauour with the King many Halberds attending who examined me with many questions I answered I was a Subiect of the Queene of England who had peace with all Christian Kings specially with the King of Denmarke but was committed againe to custody whence hauing dismissed his company he sent for me againe by his Sonne and being priuate holding a Letter in his hand said I haue receiued sundry Letters from my friends and one of late from my daughter captiue in Mosco which sheweth of much friendship shee hath found at an English Gentlemans hand which negociates in that Court for the Queen of England My Lord said I is your daughter called Magdalen Vrkil yea Sir said he I answered I was the man that within these ten dayes she was well He sayd he could not procure her ransome and clasps me about the neck crying as did his Sonne likewise Gods Angell hath brought your goodnesse thus to me how euer disguised in this turbulent time that I might render you thankes and furtherance I desired free passe and safe conduct He feasted me ioyfully and made ready his Letters and Pasports to Captaines of Townes and Castles gaue mee a faire German striking Clocke offered his Sonne and Seruants armed to guard me out of danger which I could not accept of and commended his daughter to me I passed on to Pilton a strong Castle where King Magnus lay who vsed mee roughly because I could not drinke with him excessiuely Hee had riotously spent and giuen most of his Townes and Castles Iewels Plate c. to his followers and adopted daughters which hee receiued in Dowre with the Emperours Neece and not long after dyed miserably leauing his Queene and only daughter in very poore estate I roade thorow the Duke of Curlands Country and Prussia to Konninsburgh Meluin and Danzike in Polond Pomerania and Mickelburgh to Lubeck where I was
of his late Father Iuan Vasilowich of famous memory who thought good out of his tender care of peace to make knowne to their Princely wisdomes how desirous he was of their aliance and brotherly amity promising all correspondence trade and commerce with them and theirs Letters also and Commissions to treate of such other matters as fell properly in question for the good of both sides I was dispatched with extraordinary grace termes and titles from the Emperour but especially from the Protector in priuate and publike and with Instructions and Commissions apart Hauing taken my leaue of the principall Princes and Officers I set forth well attended and accommodated in the reputation of an Embassadour wheresoeuer I came My iourney was ouer-land from Musco the twentieth of August sixe hundred miles to Vobsee and thence to Dorp in Liefland Perno Libo Wendon in Curland and so to Riga chiefe Citie of that Prouince where my Commission was to treat with Queene Magnus the next heire to the Russian Crowne she being now in great distresse and hauing small allowance issuing from the Crowne treasure of Poland She was kept in the Castle of Riga whereby leaue of the Cardinall Ragauile very hardly obtayned I spake with her found her dressing her daughters head both of them in old Garments of cloth of Siluer I told her her Brother so Cousin Germans call the Emperour Feodor had taken notice of the distresse wherein she and her daughter liued and desired her returne into her natiue Countrey there to hold her estate according to her birth And the Lord Protector Boris Fedorowich with due remembrance of his seruice doth vow the performance of the same I was interrupted and hasted away by the Lieutenant and got leaue a second time Shee complained of her small allowance not a thousand Dollers a yeere which I said she might remedy if she pleased Shee said she had no meanes to escape the King and State minding to make vse of her birth and bloud knowing their fashion in Russia she had small hope there to be otherwise dealt with then they vse to doe with their Queene Widowes which is to shut them vp in a Hellish Cloyster to which I preferre death I answered her case was different and times had altered that course none that hath a child being thereunto enforced After other words and promise of meanes to effect her escape within two moneths I left with her a hundred Hungarian Duckets and your Grace said I shall receiue foure hundred more this day seuen weekes or thereabout Her Highnesse receiued them very thankfully and her daughter then ten yeeres old twenty more and I tooke my leaue The next day as I passed out of the Towne Gates a Gentlewomanlike Mayden in her pleyted haire presented me a curious white wrought Handkerchiefe in the corner whereof was a little Hoop-ring set with Rubies but told mee not from whom I hied out of the Cardinals iurisdiction thorow Curland Prussia Meluin Danzike whence I sent one of my Seruants to the Narue with my Letters Handkerchiefe and Relation to the Emperour and Protector all sewed vp in his quilt doublet He past so speedily and safely that this Queene and her daughter were sent for stolne away very secretly and posted with thorow Liuonia before she was missing The Lieutenant sent diuers Horsemen after her but too late and was therefore displaced At her first comming as I learned after my returne she was much esteemed by the Empresse and Ladies had her Officers Lands and allowances appointed according to her state but not long after shee and her daughter were disposed into Maydes Monastery within two miles of Musco among the rest of the Queenes wherevpon she exclaymed that she was betrayed and that shee had giuen faith to me But neyther could I be permitted to see her or shee mee This piece of Seruice was very acceptable whereof I much repent me From Danzike I passed Cassubla Pomorenia Statine Meckelburgh Rostok Wismar where I escaped death miraculously Lubek where I had honourable entertaynment againe and from Hamborough arriued in England had gracious accesse to the Queene at Richmond her Maiesty professing much ioy that a Subiect of hers had attained to knowledge trust and abilitie for so waighty employment from so great a Prince I after translated the Letters and Master Secretary read them to the Queene I was well housed attended prouided and feasted by the Musconie Company was called againe to Greenwich and deliuered to her Maiesty what I was to say and what it pleased her to enquire of me In fine shee sayd well Ierome we haue lost a faire time and a great deale of treasure that our Realme might very opportunely haue beene possessed of harshly censuring Bowes his want of temperance c. Such was the Lord Treasurers good husbandry answerable to Her Maiesties frugality that though this businesse had beene kept ten yeeres a foot and the Emperour still vpheld in hope yet all the charge of Ambassadors and Messengers were layd on the Merchants both for entertainments and gifts giuen and sent of which the Queene bare the name and countenance receiuing thence many and rich Presents for that which at times cost the Company 20000. pounds The imputations and aspersions cast on me by false suggestions and subornations of Finch a hang-by of Sir Ierome Bowes who first faltered and after the other being remooued out of presence confessed that he was set on by him I omit so repaying the courtesie in releasing him when he had beene taken as a Spie c. With much helpe of friends Sir Francis Walsingham and Sir George Barnes prouision was made of Lions Buls Dogs gilt Halbords Pistols Peeces curious Armour Wynes Drugs of all sorts Organs Virginals Musicians Scarlets Pearles curious Plate and other things of good value according to my Commissions I tooke my leaue of the Queene receiued her Highnesse Letters to the Emperour and Protector with Letters Patents of grace and title for my passage with many good words and gracious promises Instructions also from the Lords and the Company with some recompence for fauour already done for them in the Emperours Court I departed well accommodated in company of tenne good ships arriued at Saint Nicolas posted twelue hundred miles to the Musco came to the Lord Protector now stiled Prince of the Prouince of Vaga who receiued me gladly sends for me againe the next day tels me of many strange alterations since I had gone from thence practises of the Mother of Demetrius and that Family discontents twixt him and his ioynt Commissioners for the Gouernment by the Emperours will Hee was now loth to haue any Competitor you shall heare much said he beleeue little more then I tell you On the other side I heard much discontent of the Nobility dissembling working on the aduantage c. I was brought before the Emperour the Counsell sitting in State and deliuered the accounts of my employment as did other his Embassadours
with the Queenes Letters Commandement was giuen to a Gentleman with fifty Huntsmen to attend the speedy bringing vp of the Presents I had commendation for the seruice done about Queene Magnus Bodan Belscoie the chiefe Fauourite to the old Emperor was now sent to a remote Town and Castle called Casan in displeasure as a man feared to sow discontent in the Nobility Peter Gollanine chiefe Treasurer to the old Emperour and peremptory against Boris was likewise sent away vnder the conduct of Iuan Voiacoue a Fauourite of the Protectors and on the way to Musco was dispatched of his life Kneaz Iuan Suscoy a prime Prince of the bloud one in commission for the Gouernment was commanded to depart the Court and City of Musco to his owne repose surprised with a Coronels Guard and not farre off the City was smothered in a Cottage with wet hay and stubble set on fire Thus were the chiefe blockes remoued out of the Godonoues way many more were quarrelled and by degrees had the like measure I was sorry to see in what hatred the Protector grew with the people He tooke me out with him at the Posterne with small attendance besides his Falconers to see his Gerfalcons flye at the Crane Herne and Swanne Princely pastimes for their hardy Hawkes not caring for their killing hauing such choyse but a beggerly Fryer wished him to hast home speedily all were not his friends Some fiue hundred horse young Nobles and Courtiers were comming to meet the Protector for honour to attend him as was said to the Citie His meaning was that none should know of his going out He followed the Fryers aduice ventured the Ford a neerer way and was at the Castle gate before that company could come about I saw him perplexed and glad that he had recouered the Palace where Bishops Dukes Gentlemen and other Suters attended him and could not at other times come in his sight in three or foure dayes together he passing by a priuy way I prayed him to looke backe the rather because they should not enuy my passing with him to shew himselfe on the Terras He cast a displeasing countenance on mee yet stayed and went towards them saluted many and tooke their Petitions great acclamations were made God saue Boris Fedorowich his health He told them he would present their Petitions to the Emperour They answere Thou most Noble Lord art King say thou the word and it is done I recite this because I perceiued his liking and ayme at the Crowne My Presents were now come the day appointed that I must againe appeare before the Emperour from her Maiesty with a Gentleman of good esteeme and was as well mounted as he attended with twenty men in faire Liueries my selfe attyred after their fashion stayed in a withdrawing Roome till the Emperour and Empresse had viewed out of the Palace windowes the Bull Dogges and Lions a goodly white Bull all spotted with naturall black dapples his gorge hanging downe to his knees washed with Sope and sleeked ouer with a greene veluet Collar studded and a red Rope made to kneele before the Emperour and Empresse and standing vp looked fiercely on euery side appearing some other strange beast which they call Buenall twelue goodly masty Doggs with Roses and Collars in like fashion led by twelue men two faire Lions brought forth of their Cages drawne on Sleds c. The Emperour being set in his Chaire of State I was sent for in my men carrying their Presents in their hands most pieces of curious Plate I deliuered my Speech the Emperour said little shewed good countenance and the Chancellor whispering in his eare stood vp put off his Cap and said he was glad to heare that his louing Sister Queen Elizabeth was in good health and therewith I was dismissed in manner as I came The perticulars of the Presents were deliuered in a Schedule to the Lord Treasurer There followed me Iuan Shamadaiao a Kinsman of the Lord Protectors with a hundred and fifty dishes of all sorts of meates for my Dinner from the Emperour Drinkes Bread and Spice sent by one hundred and fifty Gentlemen thorow the streets to my Lodging I presented the chiefe a cloth of Scarlet garment and rewarded each of the others The next day my friends their Priests Officers c. came as the manner is to make merry with that cheere The Protector spent a whole day in viewing the Prouisions sent him hee and the Empresse his Sister liking all admiring nothing more then the Organs and Virginals neuer hauing seene or heard the like before Ready mony was sent 4500. pounds and my choyce of one of three Horses sent by the Master of his Horse esteemed worth 300. Markes Hee sent me by another three thousand pounds in fine Siluer Coyne of his free gift and earnest of his fauour I was continually remembred with other gifts in bountiful measure so that Townes Monasteries Officers Merchants Natiue and Forreigne made vse of my fauour to procure Freedomes and Exemptions The Emperour I might say the Lord Protector being possessed of so great a Treasure knew not how to make vse thereof to illustrate his fame The Persian and Georgian both inuaded by the Turke were Sutors for ayde Hee lent the Persian 200000. pounds for fiue yeeres gratis and halfe so much to the Georgian King Hereupon grew a quarrell betwixt the Turke and the Moscouite The Protector ambitious of greater Rule or Title rather sent Knez Pheodor Forresten in Embassage to the King of Denmarke about a Match with his Daughter and Hartique Hans the Kings third Sonne little was resolued till foure yeeres after Alphonaze Masoloue Secretary of State was sent to Maximilian the Emperour with great and rich Presents and offer of ayde against the Turke in Hungary if he would procure passage for an Army thorow Poland of King Stephen which the Emperour could not effect and in liew thereof desiring by his Embassadours sent into Russia the lone of 300000. Rials such hostage was desired for assurance that the effect was frustrate and proued ridiculous and vnfortunate the Turke setting the Crimme on the Russe with a huge Army which cost the Moscouite infinite charge and losse of men The Pole and Swethen combined also recouered their ancient Territories the Russe at that time being employed in new Conquests in Siberia whence Chiglicaloth the Emperour with his Mother and best murseys were brought to the Musco where they liued with better mayntenance then in their owne Country I saw the King there doe many feats of actiuity on Horseback and Foot He told me of men of like complection to me in his Country taken with a Ship two yeeres before intending to passe vp the Ob to seeke Cathay The discontented Nobility now practised against the Protectors greatnesse which hee durst not then take notice of Soone after a practice was discouered to poyson the young Prince Demetrius his Mother and all that Family guarded in Ouglets Also Mekita Romanowich
the Emperours only Vnkle trusted in the third place for the gouernment in the old Emperours Will with Boris who could indure no Competitor two prime Princes made away was bewitched his speech taken suddenly from him I came to visit him hee set pen to paper and writ that hee was bewitched and by whom and should not liue The Protector told me also that Mekita Romanowich was not like to disturbe him long He dyed soone after and the silly Emperour his Nephew fearing his turne next desired he might be shorne a Fryer That Nobleman left three Sonnes of great hope Feodor the eldest for whom I had made aswell as I could a kind of Latine Grammer in the Sclauonian Tongue and Letters He was now enforced to marry and had a Sonne The Protector being iealous of him hee also not long after his Fathers death was made dead to the World and shorne a Fryer made Archbishop of Rostoua His next Brother of no lesse generous spirit not able to dissemble his discontents longer tooke opportunitie to stab the Protector though not so dangerously as hee intended and escaped into Poland where hee and Bodan Belscoy and others at home practised the vtter ruine of Boris and all his Family Meane while I procured many Priuiledges for the English Merchants with Releases Payments Ratifications c. The Protector iealous and fearefull sends Treasure Siluer and Gold Coyne to Sollauetzca Monastery on the Sea side neere the Davish and Swethen Confines that it might be ready as himselfe told me to transport into England holding that his surest refuge in case of necessity It was of infinite value and not pertayning to the Crowne I was now suspected by the discontented Nobility who shewed me not wonted countenance which caused mee to haste away hauing speeded my businesse and Instructions from the Counsell and Merchants Rich Presents were sent from the Emperour for the Queene and Boris sent with secret messages a curious Robe for me of Cloth of Siluer wrought without seame made in Persia with a faire imbroydered Tent wrought Handkerchiefes Shires Towels c. brought by his neere Kinsman I intreatell two fauours for a farwell the freedome of the Liuonian men women and children sent before to Nonogrod in displeasure a Catalogue of their names were taken and they freed by the Letter of Irenia the Empresse the other was the liberty of a Noblemans Sonne of Gilderland Here Sacarius Gilfenberg which neyther the King of Denmarks nor States Letters could before procure which his Mother well recompensed After rich allowance by the way honourably attended and ample prouisions added at Saint Nicolas I was shipped in the Centurion and after fiue weekes arriued in England at Pâ—eâ—imond had audience of the Queene deliuered the Emperours Letters and Merchants Priuiledges with Golden Spread-eagle Seales at them and account of my whole employment to her good satisfaction and approbation of me Shee obserued the Characters by the affinitie they had with the Greeke and asked if they had not such and such significations said shee could quickly learne it and bade my Lord of Ess learne it When the Ships with the Presents were comne I had a second audience her Maiestie much liking to handle the Presents After this I weary of Court Holy-water was willing to retire my selfe to a priuate life but by reason of my skill in those Languages a more dangerous employment was committed to me Frederike King of Denmarke had embarqued the English Merchants Ships in the Sound about Customes and they sued to the Queene for redresse likewise diuers in Poland which there had obtayned Priuiledges and Protection had refused to pay Debts to the English Merchants c. I was appointed to take Collen in the way where the Imperiall Dyee was appointed thither to accompany Sir Heratio Palauicine the Queenes Embassadour and Monsieur de Freze the French Kings Embassadour and thence I to the Dane and the Pole I came to Copenhagen had accesse to the King of Denmarke deliuered the Queenes Letters and after had audience and propounded what was giuen me in Commission The King of Denmarke answered with a sad countenance Our Sister the Queenes Maiestie of England requires at our hands too great a losse wee are possessed of forty thousand pounds and twenty tall Ships forfeited to our Crowne by the treachery and falshood of her Subiects c. But in fine he made his minde knowne to the Queene by his Letters requiring an exchange of certayne Ships of the Easterlings embarked in England for the freedome of the English Ships and goods This was beyond my Commission to conclude And I hasted away hauing dined with the King who bestowed on mee a Gold Chaine I returned to Lubek and thence to Danzik where Master Barker Deputy and other substantiall Merchants inuited my way by Meluin where they resided But I tooke my way by Torne and came to Warsonia where Sigismundus King of Poland then held his Court and after some disgusts at last obtained the Merchants Suite against diuers Debters which had their sought protection The great Chancelor Zameitscoy the principall Statesman of that Kingdome sent vnto me a friendly message offering also for my solace his Hounds Hawkes or any other pastimes for recreation I was inuited and dined with the King receiued his Letters Patents and Dismission and after feasted by the Lord High Chamberlaine Pan Lucas Obrosemone I also had sight of Queene Anne daughter to Sigismund the Third and Wife to King Stephen Batore but priuately hauing to that end put on one of my Seruants Liueries which notwithstanding I was discouered and had conference with the Queene who seemed much to magnifie Queene Marie and no lesse disaffected to Queene Elizabeth for the death of Storie Campion c. which I sayd had beene vnnaturall Subiects and practisers of Rebellion Shee then obiected But how could she spill the bloud of the Lords Anoynted a better Queene c. which I answered was done by the Parliament without her Royall consent She shooke her head with dislike and would haue replyed had not Posseuine the Popes Legate as they termed him whose skirts I had before pressed in Musco being there the Popes Nuncio comne in wherevpon I with a Glasse of Hungarian Wine which I refused till she had taken the same into her owne hand was dismissed On that Euening in which I departed from Warsonia I passed ouer a Riuer by the side whereof there lay a dead Serpent like a Crocodile with foure feet hard skales and in length about six or seuen foot which my men brake with Boare-speares the stench whereof so poysoned me that I lay sicke many dayes in the next Village When I came to Vilna the chiefe Citie in Lituania I presented my selfe and my Letters Patents from the Queene which declared my employment vnto the Great Duke Ragauil a powerfull Prince and Religious Protestant Hee gaue me great respect and sayd Though I had
the East Ens. l. 2 He called it also Ophir thinking it to bee that whence Salomon had his Gold Mart. Dec. 3. l. 7 Dec. 7. 8. q Dec. l. 4. L. 6. C. 12. r R. Tomson ap Hak. tom 3. Å¿ Mart. dec. 7. 9. Ouied. l. 15. c. 8. Encrease of Kine Dogs Ants hurtfull Ouied. l. 5. c. 1. 1 t Mar. dec. 1. l. 9 Ouied. gen hist lib. 5. u Non solamente cosa sana ma santo ancho x Mart. ibid. y They worshipped the Sunne and prayed to it at Sun-rising a Mart. Dec. 2. lib. 6. b Dec. 7. 10. Sacrifices c Ouied. gen hist l 5. c. 3. d Ouiedo lib. 2. del Hist Ind. e Botero f Iob Hortop ap Hak. g Henry May ap Hak. tom 3. h Syl. Iourdan W. Strachie i My friend Master Barkley a Merchant reports better of the Bermudas seasonablenesse c. and the Plantation it selfe testifieth the health and wealth thereof k He continued there til the Colonie was planted l Anno 1614. m Newes from Bermudas or Sommer Ilande There is report of some English this Winter come home which came from Bermuda to Ireland in a little Boat c. which I write not for want of certaine intelligence neither for that cause of the present state of the Colonie which some say are neere 701. English c. a Alan Cop. vel potius N. Harpsfield Dialogi vt testatur Io. Hart. b Bellar. de Not. Ecclesia lib. 4. Costeri Enchirid.. Posseuin Apparat l. 16. c. 6. Hill Reason 5. Archbishop Abbot c Acosta l. 4. de procurand Ind. salute c. 3. d And. Vega de f. operibus quast 3. * Ed. Brerewood of Religion and Lang. c. 10 lit Mart. de Valentia N. di G. ap Râ—v 3. Ouied. lib. 17 c. 9 e F. Damiano Fonseca del giusto scacciamento de Moreschi da Spagna which are also expressed in the Kings Proclamation to be Heresie Apostasie Treason conspiring with the Turk c. f Bar. Cas Hispan Crudelitat g P. Mart. mentioneth this graine of Gold and likewise the Spanish cruelties though not so largely as Casas h Marke this way of conuerting Infidels i P. Mart. dec. 3 l. 2. Cortes accustomed himselfe to haue 4. Kings attend on him Dec. 8. lib. 3. He burned 60. Kings their heires looking on k Nulla fidei pietasque viris qui castra sequuntur Lucan l Acost de proc. Ind. sal l. 4. c. 4. m Io. Metall Seq praefat in Osor n Exod. 5.8.17 o Benzo l. 2. c. 16 p Viracochie q Cap. 18. r Vid. ap Hak. Å¿ 2. Cor. 10.4 t Zanch. de Op. Dei p. 1. u Ap. Ramus vol. 3. x F. Ã Vic Rel. 5 De Indis y Arnauld against the Iesuits z Miles Phil. Ioh. Hort. ap Hak. a See Gomara Apollonius Benzo c. of these ciuill warres in Peru Powder-treason The words of Moses Gen. 1. interpreted without forme and void c Nouember 5. on this day this in the first Impression came in due order without any special appointment to the Presse d Psal. 118.24 e Matth. 17.4 See my Pilgrimes Part. 3. l. 4. c. 9. See Purchas his Pilgrims Part. 3. l. 3. c. 1. Large extent of the Sclauonian tongue Russian Chronicles Vasily or Basilius great Duke of Russia His two Sons Iuan Andrew Iuan succeedeth Entituled Emperour Nastacia the Empresse made a Saint Second Wife a Tartar Narue Castle Architect blinded that hee might not doe the like to others Crueltie Ice-fortification Plesco by a Magician deliuered Nouogrod spoiled with horrible crueltie 700000. slaine Another crueltie added The Crimme inuadeth Russia Iuans third Wife 1571. * D. Fletcher expresseth this number to bee 800000. which may seeme credible not only by the multitudes of Inhabitants at that time but also the Neigbour Villages and Countries fleeing thither for refuge Musco neuer recouered that losse Simon Monasts A strange Embassador from the Crim. The Tartars haue no Cities c. Stone wall about Musco Vologda on Dwina Bomelius Rapacitie Strange policy to frustrate debts by resigning his Empire Emperours Brother made away King Magnus A Roble is about a Marke English three Dollers His fourth Wife * Necesse est multos timeat quem mu'ti timent I saw it Fish fed sat on mans flesh Abhominable execution His purposes for England New Policy * Ant. Posseuinas Execution by Beares The Frier killeth the Beare with his Spear and is killed by her Iuans fifth wife mother of Demetrius Liuonia commended English Scots Capt. Silke of Bristow M. T. Glouer father to Sir Th. Glouer the Embassadour into Turkie Daniel Syluester sent from Q. Elizabeth hee could well speake the Language His death Iuly 15. 1575. Iuans discourse with the Author Sir Ierom Horsey sent from the Emperour to Q. Elizabeth Bomelius rosted I beheld all this Theodore marrieth Irenia sister to Boris whose Storie followeth Bewitched Letters sent to the Queene inclosed in a Bottle by Sir Ieroma Horseâ— Eremiska is their name for Ierome By miles vnderstand Russian miles which are about three quarters of ours Osell an Iland in the Baltike Sea in 59. deg. Pilton Gratitude Sir Ier. Horseys returne into Russia The Emperors excesses This Mekita was Brother to Nastacia the Emperours first Wife and Grandfather to the present Emperour The Emperour striketh his Sonne some say with his staffe on his head Death and buriall of yong Iuan. So sayth the Originall Embassadour to the Queene for Lady Mary daughter to the Earle of Huntingdon Sir Ier. Bowes Embassadour into Russia You haue his Voyage c. in M. Hakluyt But England was not so happie Iuan consulteth with Witches Bodan Belscoy the Emperours Minion 1584. Vasiliwich his discourse of Gemmes An Vnicornes Horne cost 70000. Marks Iuan Vasiliwich his death * Supposed the act of Belskoy and Boris Theodore or Feodore Emperour Boris Protector The Protector and Chiefeâ— Commissioners course of gouernment Russian gouernment vnder Theodore The great treasure which Basiiwich gathered See Doctor Fletchers Tract in my Third Part l. 3. c. 1. Iuan Bas his Conquestâ— His Acts for Iustice His Acts Ecclesiasticall for Religion * Twelue thousand Robles annually 1582. His charitie 1575. His Castles Colonies His person described His buriall Sir I. Horsey sent Embassadour from the Emperour to Q. Elizabeth 1584. King Magnus his Widow seduced by Boris his policie One was committed to the Marshall the other forbidden her Maiesties presence Boris his bloudy staires to the Throne Publike audience to Sir I. Horsey Hee is now their Patriarch Sir I. Horsey is sent againe for England He is againe employed to the Kings of Denmarke and Poland and to Russia c. An. 1589. * These ships were of Lubek Danzik Stetine Meluin Quinborough loaden with munition for the Queenes enemies and therefore stayed c. * Master William Cockayne since Lord Maior of London A Popish Queene distaste Queene Elizabeth A kind of Crocodile Vilna A Protestant Prince magnifies Queene Elizabeth The